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April 12, 2010

Katherine Marshall Blogs: Vertigo times

The hot spots this week are Kyrgyzstan and Bangkok, but every day brings new reports of riots and unrest somewhere in the world. America has rarely seemed as unsettled as it is today...

April 5, 2010

Katherine Marshall Blogs: Corruption: myths and solutions

Confronting corruption is not a good path to popularity. Sparks flew between Kabul and Washington last week as Hamid Karzai shot back against U.S. officials who admonished him to get serious in that department. A large donor gathering in New York looking to build a new Haiti rarely strayed far from the corruption sore spot...

April 5, 2010

Michael Kessler Blogs: No Sabbath rest for job weary?

With the economic downturn and massive job losses, it seems many Americans have no sympathy for employees requesting religious accommodations for Sabbath observance. Comments on a recent news story about an EEOC lawsuit against Lowe's for failing to allow a Baptist to not work on Sundays almost all tilt toward hostility to the man's religious beliefs. Hard times seem to make for hardened hearts...

April 1, 2010

Letter to President Obama on International Religious Freedom

A joint letter signed by more than 25 organizations and individuals, including Center Senior Fellow Thomas Farr, was delivered on March 30 to President Obama urging him to fill immediately the still-vacant position of U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom. More details on Farr's Washington Post blog, "Faith and Foreign Policy."

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